GRE Word List
CONSANGUINITY
the quality or state of being consanguineous
The meaning of the word consanguinity is the quality or state of being consanguineous.
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| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| marginal | written or printed in the margin of a page or sheet |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| quarry | game |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |